On 8/23/2011 11:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Even 7±2 is probably excessive: I find that I'm most comfortable with functions that perform 4±1 chunks of work. An example from one of my classes:def find(self, prefix): """Find the item that matches prefix.""" prefix = prefix.lower() # Chunk #1 menu = self._cleaned_menu # Chunk #2 for i,s in enumerate(menu, 1): # Chunk #3 if s.lower().startswith(prefix): return i return None # Chunk #4 So that's three one-line chunks and one three-line chunk.
In terms of different functions performed (see my previous post), I see attribute lookup assignment enumerate sequence unpacking for-looping if-conditioning lower startswith return That is 9, which is enough. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
